Flutter /(?)/
Flut·ter
Flutter
v. t.
- To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
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To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
Flutter
n.
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The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
The chirp and flutter of some single bird
- Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
Phrases & Compounds
- Flutter wheel
- a water wheel placed below a fall or in a chute where rapidly moving water strikes the tips of the floats; -- so called from the spattering, and the fluttering noise it makes.